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The AIC [Academic Industrial Complex] framework brought renewed attention to the role of the academy in directly supporting criminal punishment systems and military industrial complexes. [2] At the same time, if non-profits have been essential sites for access to life-saving and sustaining resources, universities have remained important locations for generating critical dissent. In recent years, students and teachers have found that space shrinking and made vulnerable through attacks on critical and ethnic studies programs, centers, and faculty members; the elimination of tenure track lines and adjunctification of labor; and the cutting of state funds and increased privatization on the backs of students in the form of unbearable debt. [3]

— The Revolution Will Not Be Funded de Incite! Women of Color Against Violence

We then soon discovered that the revolution would not be funded when the Ford Foundation, who had promised us a $100,000 grant and told us we could commit the funds to various projects, suddenly retracted the grant because of our solidarity statement in support of Palestine.

— The Revolution Will Not Be Funded de Incite! Women of Color Against Violence